Where it was rare, salt was traded ounce for
ounce for gold, brides or slaves. Salt and salt rich clays were the first

Where it was rare, salt was traded ounce for
ounce for gold, brides or slaves. Salt and salt rich clays were the first
mineral food supplement consciously used by man, most probably since the dawn
of time. The Roman statesman Cassiodorus was quite observant when he said,
"Some seek not gold, but there lives not a man who does not need salt. "
Rome's major highway was called the Via Salacia (salt road) - soldiers used
it to carry salt up from the Tiber River where barges brought salt from the
salt pans of Ostia. Soldiers worth their salt were paid a "salary" - the word
salary is derived from salarium, money paid to soldiers to pay for their ration
of salt. Salt coins and discs were reported in Cathay by
Marco Polo. Salt discs in Ethiopia ere "salted away" in the kings treasury.
The production of salt as a food supplement for man and beast is as old as
civilization itself. Salt was produced in shallow ponds of sea water through
evaporation and by mining rock salt from large land locked deposits. The Hallstatt
salt mine is one of the oldest commercial salt businesses on Earth - it is
located 50 miles from Salzburg (Salt Town) salt has been mined from the Hallstatt
mine since the early Iron Age. Salzberg (Salt Mountain) contains a salt deposit
2,000 feet wide 2,500 feet deep - today there are 25 miles of galleries created
by the centuries of salt mining. The salt from the Hallstatt Mine was exported
and traded to the Celtics.

Salt was also an important force in the African
slave trade as captured children from warring tribes were sold into slavery
in exchange for salt. In other parts of salt poor Africa humans developed
the practice of drinking cattle blood or urine to obtain salt.

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The residents of the Sierra Leone
coast gave all they possessed, including their wives and children in exchange
for salt because salt is an absolute requirement for life and because salt
is not equally distributed on Earth and coveted by the have-nots, It is
said by African tribesman," He who has salt has war."

There was also the interesting
fact that in the old criminal law of Holland, a particularly terrible and
much feared punishment was to restrict criminals to a diet of bread and
water without salt!!!

Salt is known as the universal
and most widely used food supplement and condiment. So great is the human
craving for salt, and the relish of it that we are led to consider that
a love of it is one of the most dominating of our natural instincts and
that salt itself is in fact necessary to the health and even the life of
man.

There was also the interesting
fact that in the old criminal law of Holland, a particularly terrible and
much feared punishment was to restrict criminals to a diet of bread and
water without salt.

It is known as the universal
and most widely used food supplement and condiment. So great is the

So great is the human craving
for salt, and the relish of it that we are led to consider that a love of
it is one of the most dominating of our natural instincts and that salt
itself is in fact necessary to the health and even the life of man.

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here was also the interesting
fact that in the old criminal law of Holland, a particularly terrible and
much feared punishment was to restrict criminals to a diet of bread and
water without salt!!!l